A set of images highlighting major themes in Australia's modern history

1. MOMENTS IN
AUSTRALIA’S
HISTORY
A SET OF 17 SLIDES ABOUT SOME OF THE BIG THEMES
GLENN MARTIN, OCTOBER 2016

2. “TERRA AUSTRALE”
THE GREAT UNKNOWN SOUTHERN LAND
THEVENOT’S MAP, 1644

3. CAPTAIN COOK CLAIMING
POSSESSION OF
AUSTRALIA, 1770

4. MODERN AUSTRALIA BEGINS
AS A CONVICT COLONY

5. EARLY ENCOUNTERS WITH
ABORIGINES

6. SYDNEY COVE,
ABOUT 1810

7. COLONIES ARE
ESTABLISHED AT
PORT PHILLIP BAY,
HOBART TOWN,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
SWAN RIVER,
MORETON BAY.
GOLD IS DISCOVERED.

8. EXPLORERS EXPAND THE REACH OF THE COLONIES
Building the
road over the
Blue Mountains

9. PIONEERS, SQUATTERS,
SETTLERS TAKE
CONTROL OF THE LAND
FOR FARMING

10. SETTLERS COME INTO CONFLICT
WITH ABORIGINES

11. THE COLONIES CONTINUE TO GROW
AND PROSPER
George Street, Sydney,
1906

12. AUSTRALIANS
BECOME IMPATIENT
WITH BRITISH RULE
AND BEGIN TO THINK
ABOUT SELF-
GOVERNMENT
Australian Federation
Conference, Melbourne,
1890

13. THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA IS FORMED IN 1901
AS A FEDERATION OF THE STATES

14. AUSTRALIA SEARCHES FOR A SENSE OF IDENTITY
Rascal
Independent
Ingenious
Brave
A mate
Gallipoli, 1915

15. IN THE 20TH CENTURY, AUSTRALIANS HAD TO
RETHINK WHO THEY WERE, MANY TIMES OVER
Attitudes towards:
• people who are not Anglo-Saxon – Europeans,
southern Europeans (eg Italians, Greeks), Asians
• people who have different
religions
• Aborigines
• women

16. SOME THINGS CHANGED FOR ABORIGINES
Vincent Lingiari with Gough Whitlam, 1975 Eddie Mabo, Native Title, 1992

17. BUT IT’S NOT OVER YET
The big questions remain:
• Who are “we” in the world?
• How do we make peace with our past?
• How do we accept and include others?
• What kind of people are we?
• How do we look after this land?